@tokubirb @AwareIncel if your choices are to be wrong in agreement with people who are kind to you or to change your mind to be right in agreement with people who currently hate you, most people will choose to be wrong
.@naval: Looking for truth is the opposite of looking for social approval.
“I’m deeply suspicious of groups of people coming to the truth in anything, because it’s not to say groups are bad.
Humans are cooperators by nature. We need groups to get things done.
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Arjun Khemanix.comHumans are similar. There is tremendous internal pressure to comply with the norms of the group. The reward of being accepted is often greater than the reward of winning an argument, looking smart, or finding truth. Most days, we’d rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
A lot of people can resist financial incentives; cultural and tribal incentives are more seductive. One of the strongest pulls of incentives is the desire for people to hear only what they want to hear and see only what they want to see.